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The Content Approval feature permits you to create a list or a document library where items or files that are submitted by users are not visible to other site users until the items or the files are approved by a user (such as the site administrator) who belongs to a site group that has the Manage ...

I am having an issue with my approval workflow on a two-level approval process. The content Approval Status is being set to "Approved" after the first approval, but then on the second level approval ...

I have a SharePoint 2010 Approval Workflow running on a series of SharePoint 2013 lists and libraries. The libraries that have the workflow applied are not having any issues, this issue only applies ...

I have made a 2013 workflow for a list but I cannot get it to work the way I want it too. At the moment it sends me a task to approve or reject the submitted item but it's only on the task itself not ...

I have manual workflow, where I want to set content approval status to 'Approved'. I use Set content approval status action.
It is executing, but it do not change my workflow.
More info:
I also have ...

Is there an easy way to retrieve item approval status (moderationStatus) inside the edit form? During display of edit form I need to know wheather the currently edited item was approved or not. I see ...

I am working on an enterprise wiki site collection, which have two libraries. then i set "Requires content Approval for submitted items" inside the versioning settings. now if i have an approved or ...

I have a publishing site collection based on the enterprise wiki inside SP2013, and I set that the wiki page library required content approval. So I want to be sending emails to approval/s users when ...

Firstly, apologies if this has been answered somewhere, but I have spent 2 days hunting through Google, including results here, and I haven't found an answer yet, so I thought someone here may be able ...

I am working on an enterprise wiki site collection, and for the versioning setting i defined that the content requires approval, and any user can see the pending pages. so when users add/edit a wiki ...

I have the following inside my SharePoint server 2013:-
A publishing site collection based on enterprise wiki.
Inside my page library options, I define “Require content approval for submitted items” ...

Default values work correctly when a document is first uploaded to a library. But when that document is modified and re-uploaded to the library, the default values are not applied. I've tested this ...

We are looking at the access request email notification in SharePoint 2013, and wondering how much customization we can do to it.
Is this something that "best practice...should not be customized", or ...

I have a site with multiple lists which are linked to each other.
When I update an item(edit / approve) in one list, the approval status of the corresponding items in the other lists also should be ...

I'm trying to approve selected items from a list by pressing a custom button in the Ribbon. I can get the selected items. I can get the fields of the selected items. I can even update those fields. ...

I am hoping that someone else here has tried to do this successfully. I am trying to approve a list item via JavaScript using the REST interface. I know how to do it with CSOM, but in this scenario I ...

When a new item is added to my list, its approval status is "pending". When the item is approved, the creator gets an email notification that the item was approved.
The problem comes in when the item ...

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In my SharePoint 2010 environment I have set the "Draft Item Security" to "Only users who can edit items". The search service account have Full Read permissions and should be able to index ...

I have a very simple custom list in a Sharepoint 2007 which I'm having an issue with attachments disappearing when content approval is switched on and I edit an item that was previously approved. It ...

I am totally confused regarding approval workflow on List. I thought I had figured it out but looks like that's not the case.
I simply want to achieve the following.
I have a list named "Test"
This ...

I'm using SharePoint 2013 and I have created a calendar (based on the Standard calendar list template). After that I switched on Content Approval for this calender in the versioning Settings. After ...

I am using standard Publishing workflow on one of my list. I have two users in "Approvers" group and this group is added to this workflow.
I have deselected the Expand Groups option which says "For ...

If I used default content approval workflow for both Lists and Pages, will it send email alert to approver when a new item is posted?
Secondly will the pending tasks to approve items show up in task ...

I have many people filling out list items over a few days and saving as they go.
Once they are finished there is a dropdown on the list that they set to "Complete"
Can I easily see what columns are ...